DEATH OF A JOURNALIST.
« 1y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 8, 9.10 p.m.) London, November 7. Sir Hugh Gilzeau Rcid, journalist, is dead. Tho late Sir Hugh Reid was born in Aberdeenshire on August 11, 1830, and commenced in an art publishing office, Aberdeen, but chose journalism as a profession. After conducting papers in Peterhead (185G) and in Edinburgh (1859), led in founding daily and weekly newspapers in Yorkshire ("North Eastern Daily Gazete,"the first existing half-penny evening paper in tho Kingdom), Lancashire, tlio Midlands, and London. Chief founder and first president, 188C-90, and Fellow of tho Institute of Journalists. He was a promoter of tho International Press Congress, founded in Belgium in 1891; first president of the World's Press Parliament, U.S.A. President of tho Society of Newspaper Proprietors and Managers, 1898-99.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 7
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130DEATH OF A JOURNALIST. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 7
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